Paris: City of Light 1919-1939
HarperAudio, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Remainder mark. More
HarperAudio, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Remainder mark. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2004. Hardcover. Joseph Roth (1894-1939), the greatest newpaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925. His essays from Report from a Parisian Paradise evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. So prophetic were Roth's perceptions of a...... More
Citadel, April 2022. Hardcover. The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America during the 1930s and 1940s--and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back...with a vengeance. With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson divulges the thrilling role..... More
Mariner Books, February 2022. Hardcover. A riveting biography of Walter F. White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever Walter F. White led two lives: one..... More
Oxford University Press, October 1991. Reprint. Trade Paperback. In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war. John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as one of the most arresting documents in war literature..... More
Ballantine, January 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo trade paperback with moderate shelf wear to cover. UK edition. Includes pencilled side notes. [160 pp.]. More
Random House, September 1994. First Thus. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean, bright dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Brown umber cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. First illustrated U.S. edition with this number string: 98765432, indicating first printing for RH editions of this..... More
St. Martin's Press, January 2022. Hardcover. A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on..... More
Other Press, April 2022. Hardcover. From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdo?an, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning..... More
Easton Press, January 1986. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. More
Easton Press, January 1978. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. More
Easton Press, January 1987. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. *Note that the leather color is slightly different on each volume. One book is dark chocolate brown while the other is dark burgundy. More
Easton Press, January 1988. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. More
Easton. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. More
Easton Press, January 1987. Leather. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Both volumes unread, pristine condition. More
The University of North Carolina Press, February 1984. Reprint. Cloth. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and..... More
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover. {8 & 3/4' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and black faux-leather boards with blind stamped lettering. Tight binding. [342 pp.]. More
Anchor, November 2009. Trade Paperback. In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and..... More
Liveright, March 2022. Hardcover. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't..... More
University of Washington Press, 1970. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Blue end pages. Dust stains to boards. Bumped top corners front & back. Foxy/dust stains textblock edges. [328 pages]. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1992. Book Club. Hardcover. It was a landmark engagement in the history of warfare. It served as the single greatest display of Robert E. Lee's tactical genius and Stonewall Jackson's troop leadership. But while it was the high point of Civil War battlefield success for the..... More
Oxford University Press, September 1984. Hardcover. An illustrated history of Britain since the Roman occupation, which traces its political, social, economic and cultural development. More
Oxford University Press, March 1985. Hardcover. More
Harvard University Press, January 1950. Hardcover. The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, "Eleanor of Aquitaine," has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle..... More
Broadway, March 2011. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITHUB), AND "BEST"..... More